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live, work

Kertész on Work

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“…faktum är att jag arbetar oavbrutet, att jag arbetar med en vansinnig flit, arbetar ständigt, därtill tvingad inte bara av behovet att försörja mig utan därför att om jag inte arbetade, då skulle jag leva, och om jag levde vet jag inte vad det skulle tvinga mig till, och det är bättre för mig att inte veta det, fastän mina celler, mina inre organ sannolikt anar det, det är ju därför jag arbetar oavbrutet: så länge jag arbetar, lever jag, och om jag inte arbetade, vem vet om jag levde, alltså måste jag ta det på allvar, därför att mellan mitt fortbestånd och mitt arbete föreligger ett utomordentligt viktigt samband…”

Imre Kertész

laziness, method, work

Let the Lazy Man Do It

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.”

Walter Chrysler

outsourcing, work

On Not To Be Outsourced

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

För att inte bli outsourcad - ha inte ett arbete som någon annan kan läsa sig till via en manual. Trots allt finns det en del arbetsmoment som är svåra att outsourca:

analysis, insight, surprise, responsibility, humor, creativity, guts, respect, charisma, vision, calm

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love

Seth Godin

work

Journalists and Millionaires

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

There are only two kinds of people in the world who get to do anything they want – millionaires and journalists.

Dirck Halstead, Digital Journalist

management, productivity, work

What We Manage

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

When we’re working, this is what we manage:

Time - Action - Project - Energy - Resource

money, work

Pengars gravitationskraft

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Tarik Saleh, dokumentärfilmare: “Jag var utarbetad och luspank.

Vi har haft som princip sedan vi startade vårt produktionsbolag Atmo att inte göra reklamfilm. Anledningarna är många.

Jag har tidigare jobbat på reklambyrå. Jag vet att även om man tänker sig att man bara skall göra reklam för att finansiera sina hjärteprojekt, slutar det med att man bara gör reklam. Pengar är som knark - beroendeframkallande. Reklambranschen är full av snabba pengar.

Alla jag känner som jobbar med reklam använder alltid Roy Andersson som exempel; det går att vara en stor konstnär och samtidigt hålla på med reklam. Men pengarna går aldrig till hjärteprojekten, de går till villaombygnader och Suvinköp.”

DN Sthlm 4 december 2006

work

Jobs on Jobs

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Steve Jobs, Apple: “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

Stanford Report

work, workplace

Rebooting the Workforce

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Broadband is freeing us from the geographic restrictions. Will this trend continue to gain momentum? Hard to say, but early indicators show that office is where the laptop is.
Web Worker Daily

trends, work, workplace

Telework gains acceptance

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

A couple of factors seem to be driving the trend. First, the option of telecommuting is an enticing benefit to prospective high-talent employees. “The war for talent, combined with commuting times and costs, and an increasing need for work-life balance are all factors that promote telecommuting,” says Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing for Yoh. “This survey validates what we’ve seen over the years: High-impact talent prefers - indeed, thrives - in an environment that provides a flexible work-life balance.” (…)
Interestingly, though, the study seems to contradict findings from a Gartner study from earlier this year, as reported by Dave Margulius. In a report, Gartner said it expected the growth of telecommuting to slow, from 12 percent — worldwide and in the United States — in 2005 to 5.5 percent worldwide and 3.7 percent in the United States by 2008.
InfoWorld Tech Watch

newplaces, trends, work, workplace

The Third Workplace

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

An estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation’s workforce, are part of the so-called Kinko’s generation, employees who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office. (…)

This rootless army is growing 10% annually, according to Gartner Dataquest research. The reason? Corporations are increasingly supportive of teleworking for reasons that range from saving money on office space to needing a backup in the event of a natural disaster or terror attack.

“With technology what it is, it’s far easier to bring the work to the people than the people to the work,” says Jim Ware of the Future of Work, a Bay Area enterprise that helps large companies such as Boeing anticipate workplace trends.

Ware says working out of a “third place” — neither home nor office, it’s anything from Starbucks to the local library — does raise “a host of human resources issues related to keeping track of people you don’t see much.”

But in the end, “employers are realizing that it’s about the work, not about the hours in an office.”
USATODAY.com